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You can plead 5th even in a civil case since what you say might lead to future prosecution.

My observation is that recent layoffs affect engineers with different seniority very differently.

Senior devs I know who got laid off are just enjoying their time off (with pay! if you consider the severance) after the rocketing market in 2021 (and maybe even H1 22) made them whole and financially secure. And they won't be entertaining a startup unless significant equity or big leveling up (eg Principal or Director).

On the other hand, fresh grads who got laid off are in such a panic mode (esp those on visa) they'd be willing to take anything.

I've recently had some misfortunes in the romantic department.

It is objectively a better experience being depressed in my hilltop hot tub over looking acres than the 1bd apartment the 20yr old me had.

> The Scottish parliament has ... no sovereignty of its own

I vaguely remember they said something like this about the 13 colonies. I wonder what happened to them?

Lol even more free time for ASU students to go to wild parties

I use an extension to do the opposite: redirect me to the web version without having to navigate the dark UI designed to trick me to download the app.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xoom-redirector/oc...

BNPL is simply credit card with a dark pattern. Psychologically it is easier to justify 25/months for 4 months than it is to justify 100 at once (even knowing you'll pay it back later in installments)

Technically UNIX being a trademark only the following systems are UNIX

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

Many systems are definitely UNIX-like and many are to different degrees POSIX-compliant

Duh, just wrap a towel around it to re-flow it

(For the youngins, this is a reference to the RRoD back in the days https://www.wikihow.com/Do-the-Xbox-360-Towel-Trick)

> "He seemed to care whether the world has an alternative to IE."

Whoever he is, he's a stand up guy in my book

It depends on the locality. It is easy to forget even popular "tourist destinations" have their local population before they became so popular. Short term rentals have a very real effect on housing markets in such places.

Kauai is one of my favorite Hawaiian islands and has one of the strictest short term rental regulations. I truly believe if short term rentals are free for all it would end up being a billionaire's playground (more so than it already is) with no locals being able to afford housing at all.

I think the F1 has largely been an elitist European sport, so the organizers have been able to turn a blind eye to the (mostly liberal) political statements.

Now that it is trying to expand into the States, such one sided speech becomes an issue. Similar to how nascar had been tolerating the stars and bars until it becomes too controversial. ( then of course there is china, who is not a fan of any political statements neither )

It is indeed very beautiful, true to the moniker Land of Enchantment

I traveled recently with Clear Plus Precheck

In one airport I noticed I didn't have to show my ID at all, only boarding pass (QR code on my phone).

On the return leg I didn't even have to scan my boarding pass.

As someone who hasn't got real ID yet, this Is a good hack for me.

> How awesome would it be if it also worked for a future version of Windows?

Definitely would be awesome if it becomes the placeholder KMS client key (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started...)

Interesting. I also run i3 with XFCE components but I cherry pick them and start them under my i3 session. Specifically I use the xfsettingsd from xfce so I can still customize the appearance using the Settings app, and without having to restart the session for them to take effect

Really? It's like if you keep downloading "Linux ISOs" and conclude your hard drive has a p*rn addiction.

Keep in mind AWS status dashboard solely reflects the product owning managers discretion.

And the number of yellow ("green I" if you're old enough) is definitely a material input to PIP :)

I also thought of BSTR but in all fairness this idea of prefixing metadata for string types aren't so unique: eg Delphi's string types use a similar scheme: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Alexandria/en/Inte...

One obvious advantage of such scheme of course is that you can pass them as-is to C APIs

FWIW xdg-open works similar to open

https://linux.die.net/man/1/xdg-open

Nice! Does it work with OpenShell?

Be aware of hire to fire

Say you're a manager who just lost 20% work force and want a hedge against the next round, what do you do? - hire someone, anyone, to throw under the bus when the time comes

still shows up when you google "governator"

I use Guake, mostly to bring up the "console" as a full screen overlay, like you would with Quake :)

then essentially it's unenforceable, so no I don't want that in the states.

fair to me means "not one inch across my property line"

> but several apps refuse to work properly if "internet" isn't detected

For me it's very bad code smell when the developers try to check some sort of a global flag ("has internet") instead of just perform the action (eg send http request) and fail gracefully

Ahh the good ol' hire to fire

The one with more As. Standardized tests are actually one of the most fair ways to evaluate two candidates. y = mx + b regardless of your skin color or family wealth. Is it perfect? no; is it more fair than the alternatives? I think so

or sell 3090 to crypto miners :)

I use one exclusively for sitting on the toilet reading hn. Not joking.